Model UN students Shant Alexander ’14, Cyrus Ghazanfar ’14, John Ciccarelli ’15 and Katie James ’14, have assisted with press relations, social media, logistics and notetaking at the Diplomatic Conference in July 2012 and the UN General Assembly meeting in the fall. They will be joined by additional student interns who will work with Control Arms at the upcoming second Diplomatic Conference 18-28 March.

Their efforts were covered on the front page of the Pace Press, the student newspaper, this week. Read the story here.

“However, the weakness or risk of Model UN is that participants fixate on the intricacies of the simulation itself, losing sight of its purpose — to raise awareness of global issues and the international institutions set up to manage them. At Pace we are trying to give students direct interaction with actual policymaking.”